Both the Royals and Rays wore special uniforms featuring military camouflage hats and uniform lettering.

Ian lowered his season ERA to 3.03

Royals starter Ian Kennedy struggled a bit with his control, walking five Rays (with some "help" from the home plate umpire), but he also struck out six and didn't allow an earned run on just three hits in his six innings of work. The Royals led 2-1 when he departed.

Reliever Kelvin Herrera allowed the tying run in the top of the 8th, but got the win when the Royals roared back in the bottom of the inning.

"BOOM!"

As they have so often of late, the Royals rallied mostly with singles (they had four of them in the winning flurry).

The third straight one-out single, by CF Lorenzo Cain, gave the Royals a 3-2 lead, and then 1B Eric Hosmer put the game out of reach with a towering three-run homer.

The three-game series resumes tonight, and if the Royals win either tonight's game or Wednesday's finale they will have won their sixth consecutive series...

Happy Birthday!

One of my greatest joys in teaching American Literature was introducing my students to Whitman. His influence on poetry was profound, and every modern American poet owes a debt to the man.

By far the poem I most enjoyed teaching them was "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer," since its message (it is more important to experience the natural world directly than to merely study about it) is one grade-conscious teenagers need to hear...

I appreciate your concern, old friend, but I'll be fine...we might go to Omaha later...

TrumpWits™️ in the Workplace

Until Next Time...

Regular readers of the blog know that I have a fondness for liturgical music, especially on occasions like Memorial Day when we are encouraged to think more deeply about the meaning of life and our relationship to God.

This week's Music Recommendation is liturgical music of a high order. The debut album from the San Francisco-based Vajra Voices ensemble offers beautiful renditions of music by St. Hildegard, a Benedictine nun who served as abbess at two different monasteries she founded herself in the middle of the 12th century in what is now Germany. I enjoyed listening to the album yesterday while writing the Memorial Day blog entry.

I have always had a special fondness for
St. Hildegard because of her interest in theatre. Her Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) is the earliest known example of the Medieval morality play, and the only such example in which authorship of both the text and the music are known.

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